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Formatting text properly is important. Personally we feel like these slanty italics make us sound devious and suspicious. Not the best for a video description...but we couldn't resist. Muahahahaha.
Transcript
- 00:04
[Coop and Dino singing]
- 00:13
Coming up with a good title is tough.
- 00:15
If The Lion King has instead been titled… [People walking out of theater]
- 00:17
…The Young Lion Who Has Some Problems But Then Grows Up and Eventually Has Fewer Problems,
- 00:21
it might not have been a roaring success.
Full Transcript
- 00:23
But believe it or not, thinking of a title isn't the only hard part.
- 00:27
Sometimes, it can be super tough to figure out how to format the dang thing!
- 00:30
Some titles get italics… [The Lion King in italics]
- 00:32
…while others appear in quotation marks.
- 00:34
So how do we know which titles should appear in which format?
- 00:37
Should we ask a Magic 8 ball?? [Italics appears in magic 8 ball]
- 00:38
Should we try to figure out a mathematical formula??
- 00:41
Should we just cry under our desks??? [Girl under a desk crying]
- 00:43
Nope!
- 00:44
No need for any of that.
- 00:45
It turns out there's a simple trick we can remember, that doesn't require us to fill
- 00:49
up chalkboards with crazy looking symbols.
- 00:51
Good thing, too. [Teacher stood with mathematical formula]
- 00:52
We were just writing complete nonsense on that board…
- 00:54
So here's the trick: If the work being discussed is big, like a book or a long play, it gets italics.
- 00:59
However, if the work is shorter, like a short story, it gets quotation marks.
- 01:03
So a feature-length movie like The Lion King gets the italics treatment…
- 01:07
…while a short story like Ernest Hemingway's "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber"
- 01:12
gets quotation marks.
- 01:13
A short story might desperately want to be in italics, but those are the rules. [Ernest Hemingway book appears on table]
- 01:16
Sorry little guy, no exceptions.
- 01:18
To test whether a piece is big enough for its title to be italicized, we can ask ourselves
- 01:23
whether or not it can be divided into smaller parts. [Coop discussing titles in italics]
- 01:25
For example, a book can be divided into chapters, so its title definitely gets italicized.
- 01:30
The name of a newspaper would be italicized…because while there might not be any chapters, there are articles. [Boy reading a newspaper]
- 01:35
…and speaking of articles, the name of the article would go in quotation marks!
- 01:39
Though we don't recommend chopping up a newspaper into pieces. Makes it a lot harder to read.
- 01:44
Similarly, the title of a TV series like SpongeBob SquarePants would appear in italics… [SpongeBob on TV]
- 01:48
…while a single episode of the show, like "Squidward the Unfriendly Ghost," would be
- 01:52
in quotation marks.
- 01:53
It's true, watching many, many episodes back to back to back would make for a pretty long [List of SpongeBob episodes]
- 01:58
experience, but our italics and quotation rules remain intact…
- 02:02
…Even if all that marathon TV watching makes you forget everything you've ever learned. [Man watching TV]
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